Hellbent For Cooking Author Annick Giroux Feasts on the Best Metal...

Annick is one of the cheeriest and most life-loving people around, but she craves her metal as dark as her Montreal smoked meat is tender.

Bloody Roots of 2012 Metal Instrumentals on Sirius XM

The Bloody Roots end-of-year instrumental show continues for the ninth year.

Merry Metal Xmas, 1984 Raven Lunatics Edition

Happy holidays from Bazillion Points to you religious nuts, heathens, pagans, consumers, and wackos one and all...

GOREMENT: Swedish Death Metal Band of the Week

First in a series of kick-ass Swedish death metal band profiles from Swedish Death Metal is GOREMENT.

Tesco Vee Gazes at the Backside of 2012

Hot on the rails of our year-end lists from Mean Deviation author Jeff Wagner and Metalion: The Slayer Mag Diaries author Jon Kristiansen comes...

Slayer Mag’s Jon “Metalion” Kristiansen Picks Apart 2012

What did Norway's zine legend, metal authority, and METALION: The Slayer Mag Diaries author Jon Kristiansen listen to during 2012?

SiriusXM Bloody Roots of Holiday Metal; Deck the Hells!

The winter festival is here, so slaughter the golden goose, fill your fists with spiced rum and hot beer, and let the laughter of a thousand victories fill the hall.

Slayer, Metallica, Testament, Megadeth, Many More Devour MURDER IN THE FRONT...

Murder in the Front Row in the hands of members of Metallica, Slayer, Exodus, Megadeth, Testament, Death Angel, Mercyful Fate, Rave, Forbidden, Machine Head, Sepultura, C.O.C., Voivod

Mean Deviation Author & Prog Metal Guru Jeff Wagner’s Best of...

Mean Deviation Author & Prog Metal Guru Jeff Wagner's Best of 2012

Jaevle Gävle Goat 2012 Is Burned to a Crisp

The drunks in Gävle, Sweden, beat the security again this year.

The Onion A/V Club Says Laina Dawes Wrote a Better Book...

Laina Dawes’ What Are You Doing Here? is a strikingly more powerful, penetrating, and passionate look at metal than the one written by the guy who arguably invented the genre

SiriusXM Bloody Roots Honors the Fallen Heroes of Metal

Bloody Roots is Ian Christe’s weekly heavy metal history show on Sirius XM channel 40. Since June 2004, each week’s show has examined another subgenre, band, movement, country, or theme. The show is available on-demand from Siriusxm.com.

Mike Atta from Middle Class Is Sick and Needs Help

Mike Atta from O.G. hardcore band Middle Class was diagnosed with stage IV kidney cancer in 2009.

Hellbent for the Front Row! Bazillion Points Alchemy

Hellbent for Cooking author Annick "the Morbid Chef" Giroux and Murder in the Front Row madman Harald "O." Oimoen.

Newsflash: Swedish Death Metal Author Daniel Ekeroth Is a Funny Guy

Packing up signed copies of Swedish Death Metal is like enjoying a bottomless bag of unholy fortune cookies.

Only Murder in the Front Row Is Real

From the desk of Brian Lew comes this photo of a mighty Bazillion Points author summit not long ago in San Francisco.

Mark Evans Recounts His Classic AC/DC Days in Sweden Rock

Dirty Deeds author Mark Evans is probably the only known core ex-member of a giant musical entity ever to be invited and then (after...

Wrapped in Plastic… Like a Body Found by the River

We at Bazillion Points HQ were impressed that Spanish reader "Clockwork Mike" wrapped his copy of Swedish Death Metal in plastic.

I Now Pronounce You Cannibal Corpse and Wife

Congrats to Rob Barrett of Cannibal Corpse, who has found a wonderful woman to marry him and is jumping at the chance to tie the knot tightly.

Bloody Roots of Black Flag on Sirius XM

Bloody Roots of Black Flag. Bloody Roots is Ian Christe's weekly heavy metal history show on Sirius XM channel 40. Since June 2004, each week's show has examined another subgenre, band, movement, country, or theme.